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Re: Ask HN: Non-tech professionals on HN?

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Post by chaoskanzlerin »

Just started college, no work experience. I've been looking for blogs to read when a friend (in the tech field) recommended HN.

Tech industry articles still tend to provide insights, though I have no use from posts exclusively on programming. Both tech and non-tech posts/comments are quality - kinda obvious, but this is HN's killer feature.

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Post by systemvoltage »

kanten wrote: post #8

I am a physician turned drug developer and work in biotech now. I have also dabbled a bit in IT though and got hooked on HN many years ago. I keep coming back to HN for the thoughtful comments and nearly complete absence of malignant ones.

I'd argue that quality of discussion has gone down. It has become a lot more emotional, less forgiving and less politically diverse. But, I tend to criticize more things than I praise.

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Post by Analogbullfrog »

I'm a video editor and artist interested in information and consciousness. I think editors and programmers actually have a lot in common in terms of what they do (dicing and combining data in creative ways), although the editors I know definitely don't see themselves that way.

Re: Ask HN: Non-tech professionals on HN?

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Post by 8eye »

999900000999 wrote: post #9
JesusRobotics wrote: post #3

Currently unemployed. I was studying python which somehow lead me to here. Normally I surf Reddit but I find hacker news to be less toxic in the comments.

I'm in the same boat. I found Reddit to be one of the most hateful communities online. Checkout the Herman Cain award sub if you want proof. In my 20s I wasted a ton of time arguing about politics and even my own life on that site. While 9/10 times I'd find someone fun, the 1/10 was spent absorbing pure vitriol. Ultimately no one cares about what I think or how I choose to live my life. No normal person will spend al…

def have to agree on this one, reddit is selective about what toxicity they allow and which ones they do not. it’s become the platform of hypocrisy. way too toxic than what it use to be, aaron swartz (co-founder of reddit who died in a us federal prison) would be crying in his grave

Re: Ask HN: Non-tech professionals on HN?

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Post by jimbob45 »

999900000999 wrote: post #9
JesusRobotics wrote: post #3

Currently unemployed. I was studying python which somehow lead me to here. Normally I surf Reddit but I find hacker news to be less toxic in the comments.

I'm in the same boat. I found Reddit to be one of the most hateful communities online. Checkout the Herman Cain award sub if you want proof. In my 20s I wasted a ton of time arguing about politics and even my own life on that site. While 9/10 times I'd find someone fun, the 1/10 was spent absorbing pure vitriol. Ultimately no one cares about what I think or how I choose to live my life. No normal person will spend al…

Mainstream Reddit, sure. However, the more esoteric your topic, the better Reddit gets.

For example, most of the specific game subs are hyper-focused on their topic with paper who genuinely want to know and talk about the scene.

Re: Ask HN: Non-tech professionals on HN?

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Post by MattGaiser »

manic85 wrote: post #16

Real Estate Developer. Software should eat my industry. I find a bit of what I read here to be quite interesting.

Eh, as a dev with family in real estate development, I can see why it hasn't. Zoning and building codes alone seem like an enormous impediment to scaling anything there.
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